Abstract
We report a simple technique in microwave photonic (MWP) signal processing that allows the use of an optical filter with a shallow notch to exhibit a microwave notch filter with anomalously high rejection level. We implement this technique using a low-loss, tunable Si3N4 optical ring resonator as the optical filter, and achieved an MWP notch filter with an ultra-high peak rejection > 60 dB, a tunable high resolution bandwidth of 247-840 MHz, and notch frequency tuning of 2-8 GHz. To our knowledge, this is a record combined peak rejection and resolution for an integrated MWP filter.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 23286-23294 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Optics express |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 20 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 24 Sept 2013 |